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Testing Safari’s strange treatment of declared global variables
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index.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test declared variable behaviour</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="foo"></div>
<script>
var foo; // Declaring the variable should override the default assignment of the div to it?
if (foo) {
document.write("Your browser is behaving strangely. Is it perchance Safari?");
}
else {
document.write("Your browser is behaving as I would expect.");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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